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Re: Please Post your Swarm Dates?

Re: Please Post your Swarm Dates?

Caught my second swarm of the year. I think it was a secondary swarm. It was only about the size of softball. I was able to find the queen I put her in one of those hair clip style queen catchers. Then I used a ruber band to attach her to a frame. After a few min they all went inside the hive body. They were laying on the ground so they were kind of hard to pick up. It was nice and sunny about 80 degrees. Jacksonville Florida

Re: Please Post your Swarm Dates?

Saw my first swarm last Thursday, March 17. I put up 3 swarm boxes the week before. Today, March 21, I checked the boxes and it appears that I actually have 3 swarms. There is a commercial beekeeper right down the road. Nothing like free bees!

Re: Please Post your Swarm Dates?

Swarm on Saturday, April 2, 2011, probably from my hive #1 near Lamont, FL. I saw it clustered in the tree above my bee yard.

Then, on Sunday, April 3, 2011, the swarm cluster was gone, but I saw another swarm cluster on the same tree but on the other side and on a higher branch...unless it was the same swarm that just moved from one spot to the other. If it was indeed a second swarm, it probably came from my hive #2 which is the second strongest. Both Saturday and Sunday were warm sunny days following a dreary week of rain.

Re: Please Post your Swarm Dates?

May 25th - late in the afternoon - I stood in front of my hives and watched a swarm begin right before my eyes...so late in the day I was surprised...like most of my other swarms, they went up into a tall tree behind the bee yard, too high to recover them.